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Ron Johnson’s Enjoy Technology Files for Bankruptcy, Set to be Sold

Retail TouchPoints

Back in 2016, Ron Johnson was asked in a fireside chat at Shoptalk about the biggest mistake he had ever made. Additionally, cash flow became a problem as the company was hit hard by the broader tech selloff at the beginning of this year. Ron Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Enjoy Technology. His response: “Going to JCPenney.”

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AWS to Invest an Additional $7.8B to Expand Ohio Facilities

Retail TouchPoints

East Region launched in October 2016, with data centers in Ohio’s Franklin and Licking counties. This includes a combination of actual Amazon employees and employees at local vendors that support the Amazon facilities, in sectors including telecommunications, software development, facilities maintenance and electricity generation.

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Cardlytics Bolsters Digital Advertising Offering with $275M Acquisition of Dosh

Retail TouchPoints

To date, Cardlytics has provided more than $500 million in cash back to consumers in partnership with advertisers across a variety of industries, including retail, restaurant, telecommunications, direct-to-consumer, grocery and travel.

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Telstra fined $50m for unconscionable conduct toward Indigenous Australians

Inside Retail

Telstra has been hit with the second-biggest fine in Australian history, $50 million, for engaging in unconscionable conduct against more than 100 Indigenous customers across Australia between 2016 and 2018. It’s a test all of us at Telstra accept and are committed to passing.”.

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‘A time to extend kindness’: How retailers can help in Afghanistan crisis

Inside Retail

Meanwhile, US telecommunications company Verizon is doing its bit to help by waiving charges for calls to Afghanistan from August 24 through to September 6. Garcia recommends encouraging customers and staff to make donations to some of the charities (listed below) through e-newsletters or charity option add ons at the checkout.

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Announcing Cisco Networking Academy’s Q3 Be the Bridge Award winners

Cisco Retail

And while figures for developed countries such as the United States­ appear static, (internet usage only increased by one percent of the population between 2016 and 2021), they are anything but: Internet traffic per capita more than doubled in the US during that time. National Telecommunication Institute – Egypt.

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What Is the Metaverse?

Nvidia

Video-conferencing tools, which link far-flung colleagues together amidst the global COVID pandemic, are another hint at what’s to come. The metaverse will become a platform that’s not tied to any one app or any single place — digital or real, explains Rev Lebaredian, vice president of simulation technology at NVIDIA.